Sir Anthony Irby’s Regiment of Dragoons

Parliamentarian regiment of dragoons serving in Lincolnshire

• August: Raised (part of Colonel John Browne’s Regiment of Dragoons)
• 23rd September: Battle of Powick Bridge (under Browne)
• 23rd October: Battle of Edgehill (under Browne)
• 13th November: Standoff at Turnham Green (under Browne)
• 8th December: Sent to Hull

• January: Storm of Leeds
• April: Siege of Crowland
• 2nd May: End of Irby's claim for pay (N.A. SP28/31/575)
• 4th May: Troop taken over by Captain Thomas Atkin (previously the troop's lieutenant?)
• June: Battle of Adwalton Moor (det under QM Rooksby)?

Although Irby's troop served on the Edgehill campaign attached to Browne's regiment, it was always intended as a separate regiment. On the same day as Irby received his commission for his troop, one Thomas Welby was commissioned as Provost-Marshal of his regiment. (CSPD 1641-43 p. 369)

A list of the regiment’s officers is shown in Laurence Spring’s Regiments of the Eastern Association¹⁾

Irby was MP for Boston.

Probably a single company

• Nov 1642: 172 dragoons
• Dec 1642: 134 dragoons
• Mar 1643: 100 dragoons